Foo Fighters will be the musical guests on "Late Show with David Letterman" for a whole week next week, performing covers of songs from cities that inspired their upcoming album "Sonic Highways," Billboard reports.

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The Grammy-winning band will begin their residency on October 13 and end it on October 17, the same day that the new album's accompanying HBO-presented series "Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways" will premiere. Frontman and singer Dave Grohl will be interviewed by host David Letterman on October 13.

The new record is the product of writing and recording sessions in different American cities, namely Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washinton, D.C. Each of the eight songs on "Sonic Highways" was written and recorded in a different city.

The similarly titled series documents the band's creative process for the album, which involved interviews with famous and well-loved musicians hailing from the cities the band worked in. Grohl used the interviews as inspiration for writing the lyrics for the tunes.

Among the artists he interved were Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Slash, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, LL Cool J,  and Macklemore, according to Rolling Stone. The vocalist also interviewed President Barack Obama, Clive Davis and Rolling Stone's David Fricke.

In a trailer for the series, Grohl says: "If you go to Nashville, you have to talk to Dolly Parton; if you go to Austin you have to talk to Willie [Nelson]; if you go to New York, you have to talk to Chuck D."

"This isn't just the making of our most ambitious album. This is a love letter to the history of American music," he says.

Foo Fighters initially intended to use international cities as inspiration for a new album but they realized it would be "financially impossible." They instead used the circumstance as an opportunity to pay tribute to American music.

"We're an American band," Grohl says in the preview. "We wouldn't be the band we are if it wasn't for the cities here and their music."

"Sonic Highways," produced by Butch Vig as was the band's last album, will be out on November 11.

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